Tag #138773 - Interview #78554 (Jozsef Faludi)

I was nominated for membership in the Israeli Communist Party in 1943. Then I went to party meetings, and did party work. Peace making was our assignment. We went to meetings where we would smoke the peace-pipe with the Arabs. The Communist Party also had Arab members. When I was among the Arabs doing party work, I learned to speak, but not write, their language.

I became non-religious under the influence of that leftist organization. It didn’t happen from one day to the next, but step by step. I still went to synagogue on high holidays, but stopped observing Sabbath. That’s when my being kosher stopped too, though my aunts hadn’t been so seriously kosher either.